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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Type name collision in gnumake
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Date: 31 Jul 89 17:59:39 GMT
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The structure "file" defined in file.h for GnuMake collides
with a "struct file" defined in /usr/include/sys/file.h
which is for a different purpose on SGI's implementation of
SYS5.3.  I would suggest choosing a different name which
would be more unlikely to have collisions.



brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp